INDEX

Abbott, Lyman, 89

Acta Diurna, 197

Addison, Joseph, 89

Arnold, Sir Edward to Tennyson, 64

Barnato, Barnard, 110

Beecher, Henry Ward, 93, 173

Bowles, Samuel, 91, 148

Brisbane, Arthur, 174

Bryant, William Cullen, 147

Burleigh, Lord, 200

Butler, Samuel, 55

Butter, Nathaniel, 202

Cary, Henry N., 201

Cable, Costs, 107, 112, 190

Censorship, 164

Chaucer, 65

Christian Science Monitor, The, 89

City Editor, The, 2

Conquests, the public’s great interest in any kind of a fight, 97

Copy Readers, 29, 35

Correspondent, the Washington, 10, 12

Correspondent, the Foreign, 112

Corbett, James, 97

Courant, The London, 205

Crooke, William, 18

Dana, Charles Anderson, his fine leadership, 48;

great as an editor, 61; advice to his Managing Editor, 62; on hasty editorial writing, 80; on making the Sun talked about, 94

Dickens, Charles, experience as a reporter, 16

Edison, first public test of the household electric light, 13

Editorial writer, The, 76, 78

Editorial council, The, 79

Editor in chief, The, 79

Editor, letters to, 80

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 52

Exaggeration, where it may be tolerated, 70

Field, Eugene, 148

Field, William H., 194

Fiske, John, 181

Forney, Colonel John W., 35

Fourth Estate, The, 119

France, Anatole, 68

Froude, James Anthony, 148

Gazette, The Peking, 197

Gazette, The London, 206

George, Lloyd, 111

Gladden, Washington, 157

Gosse, Edmund, 56

Gray, 55

Greeley, Horace, 61, 91, 94, 147

Harris, W. W., 216

Hay, John, 148

Halsted, Murat, 148

Hearn, Lafcadio, 53, 55, 89, 172

Hearst, William R., 88

Heenan, John C., 97

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 148

Howells, W. D., 148

Imitation, its repressive influence against a writer’s advancement, 135

Irving, Washington, 65

Jefferson, Thomas, 148

Jenkins, how he got a job as reporter, 18

Johnson, Samuel, 56, 173

Journal, The New York, 101

Lauzanne, Stéphane, 149

Lee, James Melvin, 201

Lestrange, Roger, 206

Lincoln, Abraham, 159

Macaulay, T. B., 55, 71, 202

Machiavelli, 59

Mahin, John Lee, 211

Mail, London Daily, 185

Managing Editor, 46–49

Medill, Joseph, 148

Nelson, Colonel William Rockhill, 15

Newspaper, the modern, made with bewildering speed, 43

Newspaper, the village, its opportunities for community service, 130

Newspaper specialties, those embracing politics and finance the most important, 180

Newspapers, indispensable to republican or representative form of government. The government speaks to the people through them, 161

News, local, does not exist in New York City; all important in the village, 140

Northcliffe, Lord, 173, 175

Observator, The, 206

Ochs, Adolph S., 91

Patriot, The Fulton, N. Y., 130

Pendleton, John, 12, 199

Policy, newspaper, its reversal is dangerous to its prosperity, 91

Price, Charles W., 117

Proof reading, 40

Publications, technical and class, 119

Pulitzer, Joseph, 87

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, 54, 158

Reid, Whitelaw, 94

Reporter, his beginnings and progress, 1–9;

the political, 8–10; his unpleasant tasks, 22

Reporters, first announcements of great events made by, 13

Review, The, 205

Roosevelt, Theodore, 31

Rossetti, 55

Sainte Beuve, 56

Saintsbury, George, 53

Salaries, newspaper, 146

Sayers, Tom, 97

Scott, Sir Walter, 55

Seitz, Don, 102

Sensationalism, wherein harmful, 103

Smith, Sidney, 70

Spectator, The, 205

Stead, William T., 67

Syndicate service, 138

System, 121

Sun, The Evening, 102

Talleyrand, 25

Tatler, The, 205, 206

Thackeray, William M., 174

Times, The New York, 91

Times, The London, 187

Titanic, steamship, loss of: how reported, 44

Tolstoy, 55

Tribune, The Chicago, 91

Tribune, The New York, 91

Victorian Literature, Era of, 83

Village, the American, its newspaper opportunities, 132

War, its supreme interest to newspaper readers, 99

Weather, the: its importance and interest to the reader, 100

Webster, Noah, 148

Wells, H. G., 17

West, Dean, 67

Whitman, Walt, 148

Whittier, John G., 148

Wilson, Woodrow, 58, 69, 159, 162

Writer, The, 60

Transcriber’s Note:

Punctuation has been standardised. Spelling and hyphenation have been retained as published in the original publication except as follows:

Page 3 everything happens in New York than can changed to everything happens in New York that can Page 47 or off Montauk Point: judgment whether changed to or off Montauk Point; judgment whether Page 60 better expresed by changed to better expressed by Page 89 kind to whom lacrimose emotion changed to kind to whom lachrymose emotion Page 94 who succeded Greeley as editor changed to who succeeded Greeley as editor Page 102 exaggeration and breathless anouncement changed to exaggeration and breathless announcement Page 111 opinion as to the propects for peace changed to opinion as to the prospects for peace Page 198 sent as governor to Cilica changed to sent as governor to Cilicia Page 219 accounts the letters from Edinburg changed to accounts the letters from Edinburgh Page 236 Gazette, The Pekin changed to Gazette, The Peking Page 220 Lausanne, Stéphane changed to Lauzanne, Stéphane